EUROPEAN MUSIC DAY 2019 "PROMETHEUS BOUND"

EUROPEAN MUSIC DAY 2019

"PROMETHEUS BOUND"

OPERA BASED ON AESCHYLUS TRAGEDY

MUSIC BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

PRISON OF SOCRATES

FILOPAPPOU HILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 | 18:00 PM

PROMETHEUS:

VASILIS ASIMAKOPOULOS

IO: IRINI KONSTA

VIA/ATHENS: KATERINA BOTONI

OCEAN/HERMES: CHRYSOSTOMOS KALOGRIDAKIS

OCEANID: MARIZA KIOSEOGLOU

PANTELIS LEAGAKIS, PIANO

Aeschylus' masterpiece “Prometheus Bound” in opera:

The lyric tragedy "Prometheus Bound" is the first Greek popular opera presented internationally and always with great success in areas such as the Sorbonne, Place des Arts in Canada, Epidaurus, UN, getting rave reviews.

The opera is based on the tragedy of Aeschylus 'Prometheus Bound' translated by Gryparis, and presented with costumes in a theatrical form.

Prometheus was presented in Montreal, Canada in 1994 and performed intermittently in French until 2000. In 2008 moved to New York and Washington under the direction of maestro Grant Gilman. In Greece Prometheus ascended at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, Theatre of Ancient Messene, Ancient Agora, National Archaeological Museum, Theatre Veakeio, International Petra Festival, Theatre Saras Markopoulo, in the Municipal Theatres Cholargos, Corinth, Halkida, Argostoli, Ithaka, Zakynthos, in Peristeri Park, at the Hall of Society of Greek Writers, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Evripidio Theatre of Salamis Island, Theatre "Jenny Karezi", Tsagarada Pelion, etc.

With the patronage of UNESCO was presented in March 2014 in New York City in Queens Auditorium and the UN starring Vassilis Asimakopoulos representing Greece at the UN, and in the Amphitheater Richelieu of the Sorbonne in Paris, presented by Ioannis Maronitis, President of the Club for  UNESCO Piraeus & Islands and Member of the Executive Council of the World Federation Clubs, Associations & UNESCO Centres (WFUCA) for Europe and North America.